As an artist, my work comes from my life experience an, of course, from my love of art and its history. For me, both etching and painting are opportunities to experience the world, whether man-make or natural, and to study what is there. I feel that I have only scratched the surface, literally and figuratively, of what the world offers, and I enjoy the challenge of trying to capture some of its faces and to share them with others.

    I like nothing more than spending all day outside painting, whether in the middle of a vast, alive marsh, or on a stretch of trout or salmon river studying a subtle composition of water, grass, and sky. Painting is the majority of my work.

    Etchings offer me the opportunity to work in the studio at a slower, more studied pace, and to create images which can be reproduced in small editions and so shared with more people. My etchings are done on copper, and I carefully and meticulously print each one on German Etching paper with my own special blend of inks. I've been etching since 1983, and I find it a fascinating discipline about which there is always much to learn and enjoy.